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Born June 4, 1915 • Bamako • Mali
Died May 16, 1977 (aged 61) • Bamako • Mali
Title / Office president (1960-1968), Mali
Founder Sudanese Union-African Democratic Party
Political Affiliation African Democratic Rally • Sudanese Union-African Democratic Party
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Gabriel Hanotaux
French statesman and historian
Joseph-Simon Gallieni
Joseph-Simon Gallieni
French military officer
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Félix Houphouët-Boigny
president of Côte d’Ivoire
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Albert Gondi
Florentine diplomat and politician
Alain Juppé
prime minister of France
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
French diplomat and politician
Baldwin V
count of Flanders
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Napoleon III
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Georges Clemenceau.
Georges Clemenceau
prime minister of France
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
French revolutionary
Philip IV
Philip IV
king of France
Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron
president of France
Talleyrand
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
French statesman and diplomat